By Vincent Lim
Karen Lincoln, associate professor at the USC School of Social Work, ranks among the most influential African-American social work scholars in the United States, according to a list published in Research on Social Work Practice.
Researchers like Karen reflect the USC School of Social Work’s scholastic strength.
An expert in the area of mental health disparities, Lincoln tied for third among 14 forward-thinking black scholars. The ranking was part of a study summarized in the article “Citation Impact Scores of Top African-American Scholars in Social Work Schools: The Story Behind the Data,” which examined research productivity among minority faculty, specifically African-American social work professors, to determine how they have fared in what the authors call downsized and corporatized research-oriented institutions of higher education.
African-American scholars from the top 25 schools of social work were assessed by their citation impact scores, which are based on a formula that considers a researcher’s most cited publications and the number of citations received in other publications.